Databricks adds support for Google Cloud as it prepares to go public
Summary
Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Databricks Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Technology television interview in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2019. Simultaneously, Google gains access to a trendy piece of software that was previously available only through its top two U.S. cloud rivals, Amazon and Microsoft. Databricks has also refined its software to make it possible for clients to take systems running on Googles cloud and move them to their on-premises servers with minimal effort, co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. Kubernetes abstracts away the underlying computing infrastructure, freeing up programmers to do more innovative work, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said. CapitalG, a corporate venture division within Google parent company Alphabet, participated in Databricks most recent funding round, which was announced earlier this month.